June 24, 2019

Very nice: Listen to Manchester Orchestra cover Frightened Rabbit for a tribute album

Manchester Orchestra

Manchester Orchestra have covered Frightened Rabbit's song 'My Backward Walk', and it'll come out on a tribute album 'Tiny Changes: A Celebration of The Midnight Organ Fight', an album of covers of songs from the band's classic album (listen to Man-Orchestra version below). The album is coming out July 12, and it also includes covers by Julien Baker, Craig Finn, Ben Gibbard, Aaron Dessner (from The National), The Twilight Sad, Biffy Clyro, Sarah Silverman etc. Frightened Rabbit's vocalist and guitarist Scott Hutchison died in May 2018 after going missing, and The Twilight Sad singer James Graham said in an interview with the Guardian - "I think it’s important that we remember him through the beautiful things that he put into the world”. The rest of the Frightened Rabbit explain in the interview how they're coping with the loss of their brother/band-member/leader...